Home Run Cables

One that goes all the way. From source to termination.

But, I've been drinking.

The term is used to compare conventional wiring of field instrumentation where each instrument is cabled/wired independently back 'home', to the central receiver (controller/PLC/DCS/DDE/recorder/SCADA I/O rack)

In contrast, Fieldbus wiring can be multidrop or daisy chained, from home to A to B to C to D . . . .

Or, remote I/O racks can collect field instrumentation data (home run to the I/O rack) but a single cable (or fiber optic run) communicates digitally to the central home receiver. The instrumentation has 'home run' wiring to the remote I/O rack but not all the way back to the central home receiver.

Thanks.

Typically;

Fieldrun Cable: From instrument to junction box or local panel.

Home-run Cable- From junction box to control panel or central control room.